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I have a Vostro 200 with a DVD-RW (HL-DT-ST DVD+-RW GSAH31N).
It reads DVD’s and CD’s without a problem. However when using the drive to burn, it doesn’t recognize a blank DVD. In 'My Computer' the drive icon will change from an image labeled DVD-RW drive to an image labeled CD Drive (even though there is ablank DVD inside), and if I click on it, I get a message, 'please insert a disc into drive E'.
I tried uninstalling the drive in the Device Manager then restart the PC and same thing happens.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks
David
BTW my OS is XP SP3
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Posted September 2nd, 2010 17:00
It sounds like you are trying to burn a DVD using the built-in Windows
burning program. If so, it is not capable of recognizing a blank DVD
because it is not able to burn DVD media. It can only burn CD media.
You need to use third-party software (Roxio, Nero, etc.) to burn a DVD.